Re: KDE Gets Unity Like Interface In HomeRun Launcher

See, the biggest issue I have with Unity is not Unity itself, but the inexplicable attitude on the part of the Gnome Project to go against the very sacrosanct element of choice.

If Gnome had made Unity an optional UI, that'd have been fine. But no... they said that would be the new interface, and essentially (don't know how else to interpret it but) F.U. if you don't like it, 'cuz that's how it's going to be. And I will not tolerate nor forgive being held hostage like that.

Now, hopefully the KDE Project will be sensible, and implement a Unity / iOS-type of UI, but only make it an option which one may choose to enable and use, if and only if the user wants to.

I think you must have accidentally worded this wrong. Did you mean "If Canonical had made Unity an optional UI..."? Because the way you worded it sounds like you're mad at Gnome. Gnome was working on Gnome Shell before Canonical started working on Unity. Canonical started working on Unity because they didn't like where Gnome Shell is going. It's not Gnome's fault.

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Re: KDE Gets Unity Like Interface In HomeRun Launcher

Kudos to KDE to have the flexibility to allow for this, yet not have to throw the "baby out with the bath water" and do all-or-nothing!

I'm waiting for somebody to make Metro Modern like tiles interface similar to Windows 8! Hey, not everybody likes them but I do.. or may.. or think it looks interesting (but haven't been stuck with it for a long enough time for it to get on my nerves).

Re: KDE Gets Unity Like Interface In HomeRun Launcher

Originally Posted by Dragonbite

Kudos to KDE to have the flexibility to allow for this, yet not have to throw the "baby out with the bath water" and do all-or-nothing!

I'm waiting for somebody to make Metro Modern like tiles interface similar to Windows 8! Hey, not everybody likes them but I do.. or may.. or think it looks interesting (but haven't been stuck with it for a long enough time for it to get on my nerves).

Actually that may be a good idea for mobile phones or tablets. Of course, that distro would have to work pretty well out of the box because let's face it... who's going to poke around the mobile phone's touchscreen for hours on end until they get the 'look and feel' just right? With a mouse and keyboard, yeah, maybe.... with a touch screen? Forget it!

Re: KDE Gets Unity Like Interface In HomeRun Launcher

See, the biggest issue I have with Unity is not Unity itself, but the inexplicable attitude on the part of the Gnome Project to go against the very sacrosanct element of choice.

If Gnome had made Unity an optional UI, that'd have been fine. But no... they said that would be the new interface, and essentially (don't know how else to interpret it but) F.U. if you don't like it, 'cuz that's how it's going to be. And I will not tolerate nor forgive being held hostage like that.

Now, hopefully the KDE Project will be sensible, and implement a Unity / iOS-type of UI, but only make it an option which one may choose to enable and use, if and only if the user wants to.

Gnome didn't come out with Unity, Unity was in response to Gnome. But aren't Unity, Mate and Cinnamon just Gnome-shells?

There is a touch-screen focused KDE desktop named Active, so I would assume that is their focus for touch screens and tablets. I'm waiting for ZaReason's ZaTab to come with KDE Active as the desktop environment (on a Linux distro) as an option instead of Android.

Re: KDE Gets Unity Like Interface In HomeRun Launcher

Well, the flexibility of KDE was always it's main feature. (as known as, the power of the gray side) You can make it look like almost everything. But I do remember there was another launcher that does the same trick - but it was buggy as hell.

Yet, I believe there's no point of making KDE look like Unity when there's already an Unity UI. I still prefer my -very blank- panel with Kickoff Menu.

Re: KDE Gets Unity Like Interface In HomeRun Launcher

Originally Posted by anarchticgrimm

Yet, I believe there's no point of making KDE look like Unity when there's already an Unity UI. I still prefer my -very blank- panel with Kickoff Menu.

What if someone likes *some* of the aspects of Unity, but not all of them? What if someone likes the Unity look and feel, but wants to add in some unique plasma features like activities or specific plasma widgets?
What if I want a Unity-like desktop experience on one of the many, many distros to which Unity has not been ported?